The opening bars of the first movement, for example, are marked "con amabilità," understood to mean genial or good-natured.
The darkly urgent, yearning opening bars of the third movement of Quartet No 1 sounded superb in this ambience, as did the ecstatic climax of the allegro, but one feared for the same piece in the hands of lesser players.
After the final pianissimo bars of the second movement, which fades away to stillness, Ms. Uchida kept her hands on the keyboard for a few moments, as if pleading with the audience to respect the silence.
There was the shiver of cymbals in the closing bars of the first movement, for instance, the harps reinforcing the pizzicato strings in the reprise of the Ländler second, and, more theatrically, the offstage trumpet calls of the finale, sounding from different points all around the auditorium.
Dutch musicologists, working from a discovery in the British Library of the opening bars of each movement, reconstructed the slow, melodic largo movement.
The piston rod itself was kept working to a straight line while by a new type of linkage wherein two sets of pivoted bars guided the movements of the working bar.
TR1 is highly dependent upon the use of a Sec residue because the amino acids of the so-called guiding bar restrict the movement of the C-terminal tail of the enzyme containing the Cys-Sec redox dyad.
But there is no other pianist today who can colour Schubert's harmonies as bewitchingly as Lupu does, making the closing bars of the sonata's slow movement seem so radiant, and its bass lines move so eloquently.
